LAWRENCE, D.H.

Bay. A Book of Poems.

(London Beaumont Press 1919) Octavo. (ii), 46 pp. From the first edition of 200 copies, this is oneof 30 copies on Japanese vellum, signed by D.H. Lawrence and by the illustrator, Anne Estelle Rice. This book marked the first publication of a Lawrence title in a fine press edition, but the evidence shows that bringing this collection of poems written in reaction to the first World War was a difficult birth. Lawrence referred repeatedly in letters to his problems with the printer ("that miserable little Beaumont," or "that bewildered chicken"), and his slowness with the book ("17 months he's been at it. . . . He hasn't done a thing I want him."). Lawrence didn't like the ten hand-colored illustrations by the American illustrator, Rice. However, the poet grudgingly acknowledged "the beautiful paper and print." Bound in patterned boards and backed in gilt-titled vellum. Slight bumps to lower corners, else fine. (Roberts A12.c; Huxley, Letters of DHL).

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• ordernr.: 21980

• bookseller: Bromer Booksellers Inc. (USA)